Red Hat

[Lucas Peet]

Ho, NICE!!!  I love Linux - there's no way you could do anything nearly 
that cool in M$ Winblows.  Ya know, maybe I'll give that a shot...I feel 
a project coming on.  You wouldn't happen to have any documentation on 
that - how you did that, how you set up the Ghz box, and the base Gentoo 
box to get to that point?  I'd like that - maybe a short HowTo or 
something would be great.

-Lucas

Duane Attaway wrote:

>heh, I recently found out how to seriously cheat to make this a
>non-issue...
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>I mounted the hard drive through NFS to my GHz box and chrooted the gentoo
>setup in a shell.  It effectively was a login on the old computer, but
>with a transplanted brain.  Compiling was every bit as fast as what would
>be on my GHz box (perhaps faster due to distributed resources.)  It helps
>to have one of those aftermarket hard drives with the included controller.  
>That P120 has a 160GB hard drive and has no problem moving data around at
>20MB/sec.
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>Before I learned that trick, it took about a day to compile a basic
>system.  Another for a basic world.  X by itself was another day.  
>Anything gnome or kde was a killer, since c++ code takes a huge amount of
>RAM to compile OR run.  Compiling for minimalist settings resulted in
>speedy performance.  This may be impossible with today's distributions,
>but I once had SUSE running on a 486 with 16MB in a very useable
>configuration.  The default of everything most people are used to might
>prove unreasonable for such a system.  That's why I like the ability to
>craft my own system from the tarballs.
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>Even without the NFS trick, I would still prefer maintaining and using a 
>gentoo distribution on that old computer.  It just feels right.
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